Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Cry Wolf Quotes
To expect well over half a million small businesses to adhere to these extensive requirements would be regulatory overkill.
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Frank S. Swain, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, of the Reagan’s Small Business Administration.
[Mandating that businesses share trade secrets with the EPA is a] formidable burden [that may] ruin many businesses.
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From Joel R. Burcat & Arthur K. Hoffman, “The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986: An Explanation of Title III of SARA”. Only date available: January, 1988.
It will require many small businesses to go through an additional costly and time consuming process of collecting and analyzing information. The benefits of doing so will not significantly improve the protection of human health or the environment.
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Eugene B. Humphrey, president of Humphrey Chemical Company and representative of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association.
We estimate it will take approximately 9 man-months to meet the law’s mandates for each plant. Considering that E. F. Houghton has six plants in the United States, it would consume 4 _ man-years to meet S.51’s proposed paperwork burden.
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B. Michel Robin, chairman of Government Affairs, Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association.
